The IZA - Institute of Labor Economics,until 2016 referred to as the Institute of the Study of Labor (IZA),is a private,independent economic research institute and academic network focused on the analysis of global labor markets and headquartered in Bonn,Germany.
Claudia Dale Goldin is an American economic historian and labor economist. She is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. In October 2023,she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics,"for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes,”as well as the root causes of the gender pay gap. She was the third woman to win the award,and the first woman to win the award solo.
Employment protection legislation (EPL) includes all types of employment protection measures,whether grounded primarily in legislation,court rulings,collectively bargained conditions of employment,or customary practice. The term is common among circles of economists. Employment protection refers both to regulations concerning hiring and firing.
Maurice Kugler is a Colombian American economist born in 1967. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 2000,as well as an M.Sc. (Econ) and a B.Sc. (Econ) both from the London School of Economics. Kugler is professor of public policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Prior to this,he worked as a consultant for the World Bank,where he was senior economist before (2010-2012). Most recently he was principal research scientist and managing director at IMPAQ International.
Joshua David Angrist is an Israeli–American economist and Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Angrist,together with Guido Imbens,was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021 "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships".
The Rehn–Meidner model is an economic and wage policy model developed in 1951 by two economists at the research department of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO),Gösta Rehn and Rudolf Meidner. The four main goals to be achieved were:
William Edward Spriggs was an American economist who was a professor of economics at Howard University,chief economist for the AFL-CIO,and Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012.
Harry Joseph Holzer is an American economist,educator and public policy analyst.
Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution,a College Park professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland,a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),and the author of numerous books,papers and edited volume chapters.
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers is a professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University,. She also serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers.
The Center for Distributive,Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) is a research center specialising in distribution,labor and social issues in Latin America.
Katharine G. Abraham is an American economist who is the director of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy,and a professor of survey methodology and economics at the University of Maryland. She was commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1993–2001 and a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2011–2013. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) is an international association of economists with common research interests in Latin America. It was founded in July 1992,to encourage professional interaction and foster increased dialogue among researchers and practitioners whose work focuses on the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean. Since 1996,its Annual Meetings bring together scholars,practitioners and students to discuss research papers and listen to invited keynote speakers who present the latest academic findings in economic and social development issues. LACEA fosters several thematic research networks,publishes the academic journal Economia,and administers the digital repository LACER-LACEA.
Clair Brown is an American economist who is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work,Technology,and Society at the University of California,Berkeley. Brown is a past Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations (IRLE) at UC Berkeley. Brown has published research on many aspects of how economies function,including high-tech industries,development engineering,the standard of living,wage determination,poverty,and unemployment.
Michael R. Strain is an American economist. He is currently the Director of Economic Policy Studies and the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also Professor of Practice in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University,a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics,and a columnist for Project Syndicate. Strain's research focuses on labor economics,macroeconomics,public finance,and social policy.
Lucia Smith Foster is the Chief of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) and the Chief Economist at the U.S Census Bureau in Washington,D.C.
C. Kirabo "Bo" Jackson is an American economist who is Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University,a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research,and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously served as co-editor at Journal of Human Resources and is currently Editor in Chief of the American Economic Journal:Economic Policy. In 2020,he was elected to the National Academy of Education and was awarded the David N. Kershaw Award and Prize for contributions to the field of public policy analysis and management from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). In 2022 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences which honors the excellence and leadership of exceptional people from all disciplines and practices. In August,2023,the White House announced that Jackson had joined President Biden's three-member Council of Economic Advisers.
Susan N. Houseman is an American economist who is the vice president and director of research at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. She is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Research on Income and Wealth,chairs the Technical Advisory Committee of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,and co-directs the Labor Statistics Program at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
Nada O. Eissa is an American economist who is an associate professor of Public Policy and Economics at Georgetown University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (microeconomics) in 2005–2007.
Marcela X. Escobari is a Bolivian-American government official and diplomat currently serving as the Assistant Administrator of the Latin American and Caribbean Bureau at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) since January 13,2022. She previously worked as a Senior Fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution in Washington,D.C.,where she led the Workforce of the Future initiative.
